Chapter 693
Waves of the Times
Chapter 693 Waves of the Times ([-])
Xing'er squinted her eyes and looked towards the snow-covered south. For the first time, she felt that the word "world" was so close to her.
After the Mohist family took root in Gaoliu, the world spread all over the world, and she often heard these two words.
What is the world?
Xing'er couldn't understand it before, maybe she had a hazy concept, but she was instilled into it.
Maybe when I was young, people in the world were my brothers, sisters, parents, and parents; the mountains and rivers in the world were my house and the canal at the door.
When I grow up, people in the world are the childhood playmates of the neighbors; Li Tianxia means that life at home is getting better, and Li himself means that he snatched a small wooden toy from his younger brother.
When he grows up a bit, the world may be Gaoliu City, and the edge of the world is the border fort in the north of Gaoliu where his father occasionally sells goods.
When he was sent to study, he learned poetry and characters, and vaguely understood that the world is very big, Yu established Kyushu, and Zhao State was a part of Kyushu, and Gaoliu was only a part of Zhaodi.
Those instilled concepts of the world only sprouted in my heart, but never approached.
The rushing river, the wide Sishui where there are no cows and horses on the opposite side, Mount Tai where Mozi and Qinzi drink wine, the battleship of the Yangtze River where the Gongshuban remodeled the warship and the decisive battle of the Yue people, Qiaoyi where the custom of cannibalism is extremely difficult, cremation in the Xirong mountain area Yiqu in Yiqu, Guzhu Mountain where Boyi Shuqi was born, North Korea where Jizi founded the country, and Bashu where cuckoos turned into mourning...
I've heard of all of this, but none of it seems to have anything to do with her.
At this moment in the world, how many people can travel hundreds of miles away?A hundred miles away is already a foreign land, how about mountains and rivers thousands of miles away?Even if it belongs to the world, it seems that there is no place where it can meet with myself.
She has heard many stories about Sishang.
Many, many.
The river full of weeping willows where Zishi and Confucian scholars debated the will of heaven with the help of willow leaves falling into the water; The city of coal and iron workshops, wooden tracks, and thousands of workshops; the city of commerce and industry full of speculation, monopoly, gold, banknotes, silk, cotton cloth, and linden; the city where Mozi and many others are buried. Mozhe, the cemetery full of jujube trees and peach trees that can benefit future generations; the cotton field that seems to be snowing in autumn...
I have heard too much, some are similar to this place, and some are completely different.
The people there also speak the same language as Gaoliu Mozhe speaks; they use the same characters; they tie their hair up; Drinking wine with stamp tax bills; using the same musket that needs to be blown from time to time with a matchlock; debating what is Tao and what is heaven.
The people there seem to be different from here.There are no wool workshops; there you can only see a snow occasionally; there men and women are forced to go to school or commit crimes when they are young; there will be a sea of yellow rapeseed flowers in spring; Houses built of bricks, and the windows of some merchants are inlaid with light green qilin that can transmit light; the wolves there are basically killed and made into military uniforms, unlike here, which can be seen from time to time...
If you listen too much, you will not be unfamiliar, but with a kind of expectation.
In addition to anticipation, there was a little panic.There are the parents-in-law and the uncle I want to meet for the first time... It sounds like they are all very good, but what will happen in the future?
I have already told my family about going to Sishang.
So the dowry, which had been prepared a lot, turned into a silver hairpin, a pair of gold earrings, and some money privately hidden in a wooden dowry box containing soap and rouge.
"If you treat you badly, write a letter back. Although it is expensive, it can always be delivered in half a year. The law of the Mo family allows divorce. Don't be like that stupid girl in the gangster."
Her mother had warned her so quietly, she only acted as a nagging mother, but she didn't know what her mother was thinking.
"It will be fine."
Xing'er cheered herself up, thinking about those happy things, but she didn't know that her real married life hadn't started yet.
Putting away these thoughts, he suddenly asked: "Are there wild geese on Sishang?"
Shu Pu Mi nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, I caught it when I was young."
"Is Sishang the place where wild geese fly away from here to spend the winter?"
"No way. It's just staying there. I heard from my husband that the wild geese are flying thousands of miles away to spend the winter. You know, the ground under our feet is a ball, and some places are summer all year round, and further south In some places, spring, summer, autumn and winter are opposite to ours here."
This is the concept that the Mo family instilled in young people like Shupu Mi since childhood. As for whether it is true or not, whether there are loopholes, that is not something they will think about. Most people will not, they will only accept it.
Naturally, as a matter of course, this is what Sishang has been doing for the past 20 years.
The natural earth, the natural equality, the natural profit-seeking nature of human nature makes it neither good nor evil, the natural inclusive boundary theory; the natural difference between the benefits of human beings and the benefits of human beings...
Xing'er knew this statement, and also knew the metaphor made of magnets and iron to explain why the person under her feet couldn't fall, but she was still puzzled.
She is not one of those scholars who are going to Sishang to debate with the Mohists, and cannot understand Shizi's cosmology theory that "east, west, north, south, and north are relative concepts, and up, down, left, and right are also relative concepts."
So instead of asking this difficult question, she said, "I have heard such a story. It is said that there was a doctor surnamed Jia who shot geese with a bow to make his wife laugh after many years of marriage. What if God, I'm not happy anymore, will you shoot geese for me?"
Shu Pu Mi heard a trace of worry in Xing'er's heart, and teased her, "That's why Dr. Jia is so ugly, it's his wife who is so cold-hearted. Our husband told this story, saying that if he is ugly, if he doesn't have the ability, then But there is really no other way, I advise us to study hard and grow up to be capable, otherwise we will be cold-faced when we marry a wife. I am also capable, and I have forced a prince to death, but I can't shoot a wild goose with a bow , but with a company of volleys, I can definitely hit... Since I have the ability, then you are saying that I am ugly? I will not marry you!"
The two laughed and bypassed this section, Shu Pu Mi thought to herself: If Dr. Jia was born now, it would be a disaster.Haiyang is full of sugar cane fields, tea plantations and mulberry fields, where to go to shoot geese.
I went to the coppersmith's to fix the compasses, walked around for a while, and then went to the restaurant where the concubine and the concubine had eaten mutton when the concubine first came to Gaoliu.
It's snowing today, and it's time for rest and bathing, so there are a lot of people.Especially the merchants here talked about some things about emigrating here for a while, and the prisoner Mi listened with his ears sideways, as if the Mo family wanted to take out a part of the shares of the Mutual Market Specialized Chamber of Commerce and let the merchants send a batch of grain to Yunzhong , but it is not allowed to buy in Gaoliu. Many businessmen are thinking about whether to cooperate together. They say that there is no place where the Mo family invests money. Chance.
When Shu Junzi came, there was finally a place to sit down, Shu Junzi had already changed his clothes, and he looked much more pleasing to the eye than when he just came here to keep out the cold on the road.
I ordered a shabu-shabu that has just become popular and has a high-rising North temperament, some tofu, potato vermicelli, some chive flowers, some potato shochu and a pot of tea cake tea.
It will take some time for the thickly cut mutton to be cooked. Shu Pu Mi held a piece of mutton with chopsticks and said, "It's not the best time to eat hot-boiled meat. It will be colder after a while, so freeze the meat and use carpenter's If you plan it with a plane, it will be very thin."
"When Gongshu Ban was making planes, he probably didn't expect that one day we would use them to eat mutton."
Although the Gaoliu area already has the means of hay baling and straw fermentation, once it snows, a batch of sheep will still be slaughtered. In order to save forage and food, this is the season when mutton is the cheapest.
Zhu Xia always liked to eat mutton, the gentleman chewed a few mouthfuls and said: "It's not that I said, this mutton still has a stronger smell than Sishang."
The concubine Mi suppressed a smile, and said in front of Xing'er and her sister that many families raised sheep in Sishang, and all of them lost the rams. There are too many sheep here, but they are too busy.When he first came here, he also had such doubts, and he heard it from others, but he could talk about it when he was drinking with his partners and colleagues on weekdays, and it was inconvenient to say it in front of two girls here.
Putting down the chopsticks, the concubine said: "By the way, I received a letter from my family a while ago. They also sent me some money to put on autumn fat for me."
"Is everything all right at home?"
The concubine murmured, and said again: "It's very good. My younger brother is helping Father Liang measure the land. He looks like a dog. He even went to Mount Tai to see the place where Zimozi drank with Qinzi back then. That place is not far from the foot of Mount Tai. Originally, I was in the army, and my younger brother was also in the Xiliu Military Academy. The second brother was exempted from military service, but my father said that he should go there for three years."
"The village community bought a few more horse-drawn fringe-cutting equipment, and the family doesn't need so many people, so my parents can still come here."
"However, my father said that this law-making conference did not seem to pass the law prohibiting the import of grain. The price of grain is too cheap, but it is not enough without planting. It said that the grain of each village should be guaranteed. The villagers want to My father also suffers from headaches every day for growing cotton. Some people in the village say that it is better to grow cotton and then secretly use the money to buy food, but this time the inspectors will go to the countryside to inspect, so I am afraid it will not work.”
"It is said that it is not only an order to ensure a certain amount of grain for the village community, but also an order. The ships that take the canal Surabaya from the Chu State and Yue State to trade must carry a certain amount of grain instead of customs duties, otherwise they will be doubled. Taxes. My father said that many warehouses have been built along the river, and they have been filling them with grain.”
"Sister, why do you think the food prices in Chu, Song, and Yue are so cheap?"
The gentleman raised his chopsticks lightly, shook the mutton on the chopsticks, and sighed: "Because the people there... eat less. The princes and nobles there can't eat so much by themselves, but we are on Sishang. , and take nothing but copper, silver, gold, and grain."
(End of this chapter)
Xing'er squinted her eyes and looked towards the snow-covered south. For the first time, she felt that the word "world" was so close to her.
After the Mohist family took root in Gaoliu, the world spread all over the world, and she often heard these two words.
What is the world?
Xing'er couldn't understand it before, maybe she had a hazy concept, but she was instilled into it.
Maybe when I was young, people in the world were my brothers, sisters, parents, and parents; the mountains and rivers in the world were my house and the canal at the door.
When I grow up, people in the world are the childhood playmates of the neighbors; Li Tianxia means that life at home is getting better, and Li himself means that he snatched a small wooden toy from his younger brother.
When he grows up a bit, the world may be Gaoliu City, and the edge of the world is the border fort in the north of Gaoliu where his father occasionally sells goods.
When he was sent to study, he learned poetry and characters, and vaguely understood that the world is very big, Yu established Kyushu, and Zhao State was a part of Kyushu, and Gaoliu was only a part of Zhaodi.
Those instilled concepts of the world only sprouted in my heart, but never approached.
The rushing river, the wide Sishui where there are no cows and horses on the opposite side, Mount Tai where Mozi and Qinzi drink wine, the battleship of the Yangtze River where the Gongshuban remodeled the warship and the decisive battle of the Yue people, Qiaoyi where the custom of cannibalism is extremely difficult, cremation in the Xirong mountain area Yiqu in Yiqu, Guzhu Mountain where Boyi Shuqi was born, North Korea where Jizi founded the country, and Bashu where cuckoos turned into mourning...
I've heard of all of this, but none of it seems to have anything to do with her.
At this moment in the world, how many people can travel hundreds of miles away?A hundred miles away is already a foreign land, how about mountains and rivers thousands of miles away?Even if it belongs to the world, it seems that there is no place where it can meet with myself.
She has heard many stories about Sishang.
Many, many.
The river full of weeping willows where Zishi and Confucian scholars debated the will of heaven with the help of willow leaves falling into the water; The city of coal and iron workshops, wooden tracks, and thousands of workshops; the city of commerce and industry full of speculation, monopoly, gold, banknotes, silk, cotton cloth, and linden; the city where Mozi and many others are buried. Mozhe, the cemetery full of jujube trees and peach trees that can benefit future generations; the cotton field that seems to be snowing in autumn...
I have heard too much, some are similar to this place, and some are completely different.
The people there also speak the same language as Gaoliu Mozhe speaks; they use the same characters; they tie their hair up; Drinking wine with stamp tax bills; using the same musket that needs to be blown from time to time with a matchlock; debating what is Tao and what is heaven.
The people there seem to be different from here.There are no wool workshops; there you can only see a snow occasionally; there men and women are forced to go to school or commit crimes when they are young; there will be a sea of yellow rapeseed flowers in spring; Houses built of bricks, and the windows of some merchants are inlaid with light green qilin that can transmit light; the wolves there are basically killed and made into military uniforms, unlike here, which can be seen from time to time...
If you listen too much, you will not be unfamiliar, but with a kind of expectation.
In addition to anticipation, there was a little panic.There are the parents-in-law and the uncle I want to meet for the first time... It sounds like they are all very good, but what will happen in the future?
I have already told my family about going to Sishang.
So the dowry, which had been prepared a lot, turned into a silver hairpin, a pair of gold earrings, and some money privately hidden in a wooden dowry box containing soap and rouge.
"If you treat you badly, write a letter back. Although it is expensive, it can always be delivered in half a year. The law of the Mo family allows divorce. Don't be like that stupid girl in the gangster."
Her mother had warned her so quietly, she only acted as a nagging mother, but she didn't know what her mother was thinking.
"It will be fine."
Xing'er cheered herself up, thinking about those happy things, but she didn't know that her real married life hadn't started yet.
Putting away these thoughts, he suddenly asked: "Are there wild geese on Sishang?"
Shu Pu Mi nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, I caught it when I was young."
"Is Sishang the place where wild geese fly away from here to spend the winter?"
"No way. It's just staying there. I heard from my husband that the wild geese are flying thousands of miles away to spend the winter. You know, the ground under our feet is a ball, and some places are summer all year round, and further south In some places, spring, summer, autumn and winter are opposite to ours here."
This is the concept that the Mo family instilled in young people like Shupu Mi since childhood. As for whether it is true or not, whether there are loopholes, that is not something they will think about. Most people will not, they will only accept it.
Naturally, as a matter of course, this is what Sishang has been doing for the past 20 years.
The natural earth, the natural equality, the natural profit-seeking nature of human nature makes it neither good nor evil, the natural inclusive boundary theory; the natural difference between the benefits of human beings and the benefits of human beings...
Xing'er knew this statement, and also knew the metaphor made of magnets and iron to explain why the person under her feet couldn't fall, but she was still puzzled.
She is not one of those scholars who are going to Sishang to debate with the Mohists, and cannot understand Shizi's cosmology theory that "east, west, north, south, and north are relative concepts, and up, down, left, and right are also relative concepts."
So instead of asking this difficult question, she said, "I have heard such a story. It is said that there was a doctor surnamed Jia who shot geese with a bow to make his wife laugh after many years of marriage. What if God, I'm not happy anymore, will you shoot geese for me?"
Shu Pu Mi heard a trace of worry in Xing'er's heart, and teased her, "That's why Dr. Jia is so ugly, it's his wife who is so cold-hearted. Our husband told this story, saying that if he is ugly, if he doesn't have the ability, then But there is really no other way, I advise us to study hard and grow up to be capable, otherwise we will be cold-faced when we marry a wife. I am also capable, and I have forced a prince to death, but I can't shoot a wild goose with a bow , but with a company of volleys, I can definitely hit... Since I have the ability, then you are saying that I am ugly? I will not marry you!"
The two laughed and bypassed this section, Shu Pu Mi thought to herself: If Dr. Jia was born now, it would be a disaster.Haiyang is full of sugar cane fields, tea plantations and mulberry fields, where to go to shoot geese.
I went to the coppersmith's to fix the compasses, walked around for a while, and then went to the restaurant where the concubine and the concubine had eaten mutton when the concubine first came to Gaoliu.
It's snowing today, and it's time for rest and bathing, so there are a lot of people.Especially the merchants here talked about some things about emigrating here for a while, and the prisoner Mi listened with his ears sideways, as if the Mo family wanted to take out a part of the shares of the Mutual Market Specialized Chamber of Commerce and let the merchants send a batch of grain to Yunzhong , but it is not allowed to buy in Gaoliu. Many businessmen are thinking about whether to cooperate together. They say that there is no place where the Mo family invests money. Chance.
When Shu Junzi came, there was finally a place to sit down, Shu Junzi had already changed his clothes, and he looked much more pleasing to the eye than when he just came here to keep out the cold on the road.
I ordered a shabu-shabu that has just become popular and has a high-rising North temperament, some tofu, potato vermicelli, some chive flowers, some potato shochu and a pot of tea cake tea.
It will take some time for the thickly cut mutton to be cooked. Shu Pu Mi held a piece of mutton with chopsticks and said, "It's not the best time to eat hot-boiled meat. It will be colder after a while, so freeze the meat and use carpenter's If you plan it with a plane, it will be very thin."
"When Gongshu Ban was making planes, he probably didn't expect that one day we would use them to eat mutton."
Although the Gaoliu area already has the means of hay baling and straw fermentation, once it snows, a batch of sheep will still be slaughtered. In order to save forage and food, this is the season when mutton is the cheapest.
Zhu Xia always liked to eat mutton, the gentleman chewed a few mouthfuls and said: "It's not that I said, this mutton still has a stronger smell than Sishang."
The concubine Mi suppressed a smile, and said in front of Xing'er and her sister that many families raised sheep in Sishang, and all of them lost the rams. There are too many sheep here, but they are too busy.When he first came here, he also had such doubts, and he heard it from others, but he could talk about it when he was drinking with his partners and colleagues on weekdays, and it was inconvenient to say it in front of two girls here.
Putting down the chopsticks, the concubine said: "By the way, I received a letter from my family a while ago. They also sent me some money to put on autumn fat for me."
"Is everything all right at home?"
The concubine murmured, and said again: "It's very good. My younger brother is helping Father Liang measure the land. He looks like a dog. He even went to Mount Tai to see the place where Zimozi drank with Qinzi back then. That place is not far from the foot of Mount Tai. Originally, I was in the army, and my younger brother was also in the Xiliu Military Academy. The second brother was exempted from military service, but my father said that he should go there for three years."
"The village community bought a few more horse-drawn fringe-cutting equipment, and the family doesn't need so many people, so my parents can still come here."
"However, my father said that this law-making conference did not seem to pass the law prohibiting the import of grain. The price of grain is too cheap, but it is not enough without planting. It said that the grain of each village should be guaranteed. The villagers want to My father also suffers from headaches every day for growing cotton. Some people in the village say that it is better to grow cotton and then secretly use the money to buy food, but this time the inspectors will go to the countryside to inspect, so I am afraid it will not work.”
"It is said that it is not only an order to ensure a certain amount of grain for the village community, but also an order. The ships that take the canal Surabaya from the Chu State and Yue State to trade must carry a certain amount of grain instead of customs duties, otherwise they will be doubled. Taxes. My father said that many warehouses have been built along the river, and they have been filling them with grain.”
"Sister, why do you think the food prices in Chu, Song, and Yue are so cheap?"
The gentleman raised his chopsticks lightly, shook the mutton on the chopsticks, and sighed: "Because the people there... eat less. The princes and nobles there can't eat so much by themselves, but we are on Sishang. , and take nothing but copper, silver, gold, and grain."
(End of this chapter)